Using Free WordPress Security Scanner – WPSeku

It is not easy to get an easy to use and working free Wordpress Security Scanner. In this guide, I’ll introduce a free tool called WPSeku which is written in Python. This makes it portable to any system.

From Wikipedia, A vulnerability scanner is defined as a computer program that’s designed to assess computers, computer systems, networks or applications for known weaknesses.

A vulnerability scanner is used to discover the weak points or poorly constructed parts in a system e.g vulnerabilities relating to mis-configured assets or flawed software that resides on a network-based asset such as a firewall, router, web server, application server, etc.

WPSeku is a black box WordPress vulnerability scanner that can be used to scan remote WordPress installations to find security issues.

Install WordPress Vulnerability Scanner – WPSeku

The WPSeku Wordpress Security Scanner tool requires python 3. If you don’t have it make sure to get it installed first before you continue.

# which python3
/usr/bin/python3

Once you confirm python3 is installed, install WPSeku Wordpress Security Scanner from Github.